SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 14, 2012) - Get Satisfaction, the customer engagement platform that's re-humanizing relationships between companies and their customers, today announced the winners of its first annual "Love Your Customers" Awards. Celebrating daring feats of customer empowerment and support, the awards recognize companies and individuals for ongoing excellence in social support, marketing and general community awesomeness.

"It's just good business practice to be where your customers are, to know them and be ready to connect with them on their terms," says Get Satisfaction CEO Wendy Lea. "The winning brands use Get Satisfaction for everything from social support to marketing and commerce, but what they all have in common is a deep understanding of how customer engagement is the key to truly being a social business."

Get Satisfaction combed through 65,000 brand communities, seeking out the most shining examples of caring community managers and delighted customers. The following companies made the final cut. For non-abridged descriptions and all the juicy details, visit http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/

• The Put a Ring on It Award
  Winner: StumbleUpon
  for orchestrating a marriage proposal for two lovestruck Stumblers
  
  
• The It Takes a Village Award
  Winner: Pampers
  for creating an open, caring space where moms can truly feel free to share both trials and triumphs
  
  
• The Lead by Example Award
  Winner: Paul Woelbing, Carmex
  for maintaining a family business tradition: having the CEO respond to each customer personally
  
  
• The Instant Gratification Award
  Winner: IZEA
  for most comprehensive knowledge base, and resulting super speedy resolution times
  
  
• The Flippin' Awesome Mobile Support Award
  Winner: Flipboard
  for best in-app support
  
  
• The Richard Simmons Award for Unwavering Motivational Support and Cheerleading Excellence
  Winner: MapMyFitness
  for keeping their customers on the fitness bandwagon
  
  
• The Uber Fan Award for Best Customer Champions Ever-Ever
  Winner: OMGPOP
  for cultivating the best and most active brand champions
  
  
• The International Language of Love Award
  Winner: Yola
  for multi-language support and for not relying on robotic auto-translation
  
  
• The Ringmaster of the Year Award
  Winner: Roland Tanglao, Mozilla Messaging
  for tirelessly offering advice, lending a hand to other community managers and developing custom features using the Get Satisfaction API
  
  
• The Grace Under Fire Award
  Winner: AMC Theatres
  for responding in a timely manner to negative feedback to create a positive outcome
  
  
• The All Hands Award for Employee Engagement
  Winner: Box
  for encouraging all their employees to contribute to making happy customers
  
  
• The Mum's The Word Award
  Winner: Kiddicare
  for best use of customer feedback to build a better shopping experience
  

And finally, without further ado, the one for all the marbles:

• The Lifetime Achievement Award for Exceptional Customer Support
  Winner: Mint
  for resolving problems quickly, genuinely engaging with customers and developing multiple product changes based on customer feedback

Congratulations to all the winners! Go tell them how much you love them; it's Valentine's Day!

About Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction is the leading customer engagement platform that helps 65,000 companies build better relationships with their customers and prospects, and better relationships mean better business. Our cloud-delivered service is used by industry leaders such as Box, Panasonic, Microsoft, AMC Theatres, and Mint for social support, marketing, product feedback and commerce solutions. Engage with your customers anywhere they are including Facebook, mobile and your own company website. For a free trial, visit www.getsatisfaction.com.